SM to take legal action against false rumors about EXO

SM Entertainment has stated that they will take legal action against those spreading the recent rumors surrounding EXO.

On March 12, rumors were being spread on community sites and social media about an EXO member allegedly being one of the people in Jung Joon Young’s chatrooms where illegal hidden camera footage was shared.

SM Entertainment’s official statement is as follows:

Hello, this is SM Entertainment.

The rumors about our artist [EXO] that are being spread online are groundless rumors, and the expansion of this false information is causing serious damage to the artist and agency.

We therefore announce that we will take strong legal action against those who have engaged in such illegal actions (writing, posting, and spreading false rumors). We will continue to take strong legal action against such malicious rumors and ask you to actively report to us (protect@smtown.com).

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It is wild how several major agencies' stocks dipped...idk if it's bc of the rumours of their idols being involved or if investors see the scandal as reflecting negatively on all idols? It's interesting

they pretty much had a standard senior-junior relationship that I think began over them both being the maknaes of their groups. nothing of sehun being involved in his business ties or being seen at any of his clubs.

well his alleged involvement in this situation is baseless and something stan twitter made up and ran with based off of an instagram post, so I don’t think publications should even be entertaining that shit.

Thanks to stupid gits making a giant reach at his Insta post. EXO has so many antis at this point it's not surprising they would try it. Even the EXO Twitter posted it so maybe they're serious for once lol.

while so many of the members have done stupid things i really can't imagine any of them being in on what seungri and jjy were doing.i'd never be able to support the group if it was to come out. i couldn't listen to their music without thinking of the victims.

That Sehun thing was stupid af. I am not a fan of the dude but even I am pissed on his behalf.

Like enough. This and all the gleeful attempts at guessing who the victims are reminds me that this environment ain’t shit. The same people condemning these assholes are then turning around and trying to hurt the victims with all these rumours. The women do not need to be revealed.

Yeah I've heard about how Sehun likes going to clubs too? And maybe it was Burning Sun. And also Seungri posted how Sehun is a close friend and they understand each other a while back... but I don't know to what extent they mean and stuff. I'm definitely more wary of k idols right now but at the same time it shouldn't be on completely unproven claims.

There's this older chef he hangs out with and some people think he's his sugar daddy despite the fact that Sehun earns more than him and the man is married with a wife and kid. People just thought their pictures looked couple-y and ran with the rumor

Sehun hasn't been linked to any of the scandals or in the group chats, he and Seungri met up for dinner and Seungri sent him a food truck but they didn't have business ties like the other dudes in this mess. People thought a post he made a day before Seungri retired was him showing support but it was for fans

I'm not one to blindly defend my faves, but this seems like a reach. Being so quick to cancel anyone that has ever been in Seungri's life is a bit of a stretch. If we were held accountable for all the shitty people we were connected to in some way then...we'd all be cancelled. We don't know the full extent of their relationship. Maybe they were simply close in a senior/junior, "yeah lets get food when I see you next" sort of friendship? We don't and probably won't ever know. We don't know if he knows, and it's pre-emptive to assume.

Sm's email being PROTECT is cracking me up.Like, I know we don't /know/ Sehun but he seems smart enough to not get himself anywhere near some gross ass bullshit like this. I doubt he and Seungri are even friends like that.

If Sehun is revealed to have been involved in this shit, I'll feed him to the wolves myself ut as it stands, out of all the dudes revealed so far, he has no business ties to Seungri, no allegations of sexual harassment or abuse and doesn't match any of the released profiles of the celebs involved. Cancelling him when his post has nothing to do with Seungri and there's no indication they were anything more than good senior-junior buddies is hella premature